[Dovecot] Maillog rotates, but dovecot still writes logs into old logfile?

[Troy Engel]

Mart Pirita wrote:
> 
> The only solution I did found, is adding into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog 
> command to restart dovecot:
> 
>    /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot restart >/dev/null 
> 2>&1                                                                 

As per the wiki, dovecot listens to SIGUSR1 to reopen a log. You want to 
simply use a command like:

   /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true

See here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging#head-8886f6e09e2f691a4c45448f18f914c124dead50

-te

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